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Mach4IPC.dll interop for C#

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wz2b:
Does anybody have a Mach4IPC interop bindings library for C#?

wz2b:
I'm still trying to get real time XYZ and machine state out of my older Mach 4 and am taking another path.  I watched a youtube video where somebody was doing some control by attaching to MachIPC.DLL from C#.  I couldn't find any documentation on MachIPC.DLL but I did a dumpbin on it and it has many of the same symbols as MachCore.DLL including things like:


--- Code: ---    _mcAxisGetMachinePos@12
    _mcAxisIsHoming@12
    _mcAxisIsStill@12
    _mcSpindleGetMotorRPM@8
    _mcAxisGetPos@12
--- End code ---

Based on nothing more than the names matching, I copied a few mappings out of one of the samples, hoping it would work the same:


--- Code: --- [DllImport("Mach4IPC.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]
public static extern int mcAxisGetPos(
[param: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)] int mInst,
[param: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)] int axis,
[param: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.R8), In(), Out()] ref double val);

[DllImport("Mach4IPC.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)]
public static extern int mcAxisGetMachinePos(
[param: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)] int mInst,
[param: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I4)] int axis,
[param: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.R8), In(), Out()] ref double val);
--- End code ---


I don't know that is right, and I don't know that MachIPC.DLL is intended to be used this way, but based on the name it seems so.  My goal here would be to create a standalone program that gets the info that I want out of running Mach4 and then sends it out over the network, probably via MQTT.

I do not know how to begin a 'session' either - mInst looks like it's some kind of handle that I need to obtain first.

Am I on the right path here?

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